Sunday, June 30, 2013

GSA Kirk Bryan Award to AZGS's Phil Pearthree

AZGS Section
Chief Dr. Phil Pearthree and his co-authors will receive the 2013 Kirk Bryan
Award from the Geological Society of America’s Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology Division this fall at the GSA Annual meeting.The Kirk Bryan Award is bestowed upon the
author or authors of a published paper of distinction advancing the science of
geomorphology or some related field, such as Quaternary geology.

The
winning paper is:

House,
P. K., Pearthree, P. A., and Perkins, M. E., 2008, Stratigraphic evidence for
the role of lake-spillover in the inception of the lower Colorado River in
southern Nevada and western Arizona, in Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R., and Miller,
D.M., eds., Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and
Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives: Geological
Society of America Special Paper 439, p. 335-354, doi: 10.1130/2008.2439(15).